Vladimir Putin took part, via videoconference, in a ceremony marking the opening to traffic of new and reconstructed sections of transport network, including the M12 and M5 motorways as well as the Yekaterinburg Ring Road.

Vladimir Putin met with Chelyabinsk Region Governor Alexei Teksler to discuss the region’s socioeconomic development.

In Magnitogorsk, the President held a meeting via videoconference on the situation with the floods and wildfires in the regions of the Russian Federation and on mitigating the consequences.

Vladimir Putin began his working trip to the Chelyabinsk Region and the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Early Termination of Chelyabinsk Region Governor’s Mandate. Alexei Teksler was appointed Acting Governor of the region.

The President made a trip to Magnitogorsk where a gas explosion occurred in a block of flats on Monday morning.

Vladimir Putin and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the Development of Human Capital exhibition.

Vladimir Putin took part in the 14^th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum.

During his trip to Chelyabinsk Region, Vladimir Putin visited the Chelyabinsk Compressor Plant.

Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport, and Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Year of the Environment in Russia Sergei Ivanov visited Chelyabinsk together with Presidential Aide and State Council Secretary Igor Levitin.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov and Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh chaired a regional seminar on theimplementation of the state ethnic policy in the Urals Federal District.

Mr Dubrovsky briefed Vladimir Putin on the socioeconomic situation in the region and preparations for the 2020 SCO and BRICS summits.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Chelyabinsk Region Governor Boris Dubrovsky to discuss the socioeconomic situation in the region.